Getting to a GL based X server

Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com
Thu May 26 16:35:43 PDT 2005


On 5/26/05, Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> wrote:
> If I'm reading this right, you do still need a degenerate DRI driver.  It
> won't do much more than swrast and accelerated buffer swaps, but it still
> needs to know which registers to poke, when the engine goes idle, etc.

These degenerate DRI drivers are fairly easy to produce by copying
code out of the kernel and XAA drivers. You've always been able to
build them with Mesa but nobody has bothered since there was no
demand.

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Jon Smirl
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